New Delhi:
BJP leaders and workers are gathering in large numbers at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, from where party Chief Rajnath Singh will lead a protest march at noon to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's residence about 5 km away.
They are unlikely to reach their destination at Parliament Street; the Delhi Police have erected barricades about 500 metres away from there.
The BJP wants Mr Shinde to apologise for his comments on "saffron terror" made last month at a Congress conclave in Jaipur. The main Opposition party has said that if Mr Shinde does not apologise, they will boycott him in Parliament, which will mean not allowing him to speak at all in either House by disrupting proceedings every time he rises. The opposition did this with P Chidambaram over 2G allegations against him for an entire Parliament session in 2011.
Mr Shinde had said in Jaipur, "We have got an investigation report that be it the RSS or BJP, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism." He later said he meant "saffron terrorism" not "Hindu terrorism."
The BJP is livid. In an exclusive interview to NDTV, senior leader Arun Jaitley said, "The Home Minister of the country says something like this without even a shred of evidence. He defames us. It takes the polity of the country to the lowest levels...This statement only helps Pakistan."
The BJP's Shinde strategy is a key element of its plans for the Budget session of Parliament that begins tomorrow. It is also part of a larger attempt by the party to regroup its traditional Hindu vote bank. The BJP's ideological mentor, the RSS, has mandated a Hindutva relaunch as part of its action plan for general elections 2014.
The BJP's top leadership met yesterday to discuss the party's strategy to take on the Congress-led government in the Budget Session. Today, they will meet leaders from other parties in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA that the BJP leads, to decide on floor strategy.
The NDA will also leverage the 4000-crore VVIP chopper scandal to attack the government on another count of corruption. It has demanded that the government state who the beneficiaries of alleged kickbacks in the deal are. The BJP has also moved adjournment motions on a host of other issues. It plans to raise drought in states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra, allegations against Rajya Sabha chiarman PJ Kurien in the Suryanelli rape case and its dissatisfaction with the government's fuel pricing policy.
They are unlikely to reach their destination at Parliament Street; the Delhi Police have erected barricades about 500 metres away from there.
The BJP wants Mr Shinde to apologise for his comments on "saffron terror" made last month at a Congress conclave in Jaipur. The main Opposition party has said that if Mr Shinde does not apologise, they will boycott him in Parliament, which will mean not allowing him to speak at all in either House by disrupting proceedings every time he rises. The opposition did this with P Chidambaram over 2G allegations against him for an entire Parliament session in 2011.
Mr Shinde had said in Jaipur, "We have got an investigation report that be it the RSS or BJP, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism." He later said he meant "saffron terrorism" not "Hindu terrorism."
The BJP is livid. In an exclusive interview to NDTV, senior leader Arun Jaitley said, "The Home Minister of the country says something like this without even a shred of evidence. He defames us. It takes the polity of the country to the lowest levels...This statement only helps Pakistan."
The BJP's Shinde strategy is a key element of its plans for the Budget session of Parliament that begins tomorrow. It is also part of a larger attempt by the party to regroup its traditional Hindu vote bank. The BJP's ideological mentor, the RSS, has mandated a Hindutva relaunch as part of its action plan for general elections 2014.
The BJP's top leadership met yesterday to discuss the party's strategy to take on the Congress-led government in the Budget Session. Today, they will meet leaders from other parties in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA that the BJP leads, to decide on floor strategy.
The NDA will also leverage the 4000-crore VVIP chopper scandal to attack the government on another count of corruption. It has demanded that the government state who the beneficiaries of alleged kickbacks in the deal are. The BJP has also moved adjournment motions on a host of other issues. It plans to raise drought in states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra, allegations against Rajya Sabha chiarman PJ Kurien in the Suryanelli rape case and its dissatisfaction with the government's fuel pricing policy.
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